TV Sports: Basketball
Platform: Amiga 500
Region: Europe
Media: Floppy
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Sports - Multi-Screen - Basketball
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1990
Developer: Cinemaware
Publisher: Cinemaware (Rest of the World) Mirrorsoft (Europe)
Players: 1 or 2, Simultaneous
Hardware: OCS, ECS
Conversions: NEC PC Engine, PC (DOS), Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
Disks: 2
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Basketball was the second sport to which Cinemaware applied their philosophy of lavish production and advanced cutscenes. Exhibition and league matches are on offer, with the opportunity to recreate a full league season with 1 player assigned to each of the 28 clubs. The game uses varying camera positions, with top-down views when the ball is close to either hoop, and a side-view when the ball is mid-court - controls remain unchanged for these, so the switch doens't cause a sudden change in player movement.

As well as playing the matches you have full coaching control. This can involve making substitutions but also assigning marking and game strategies.
 
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/tv-sports-basketball

Game design by Larry Garner and John Cutter. Main coding by Larry Garner; additional coding by Andrew Condon and Dan Pinal. Original music and sound FX by Jim Simmons.

Game supports the following features: 

- Enhanced sound with 1Mb ram or more
- Simultaneous gameplay of up to 4 players (exhibition games only) using a parallel port joystick adapter
- Printing of team, game and season statistics
- HD installation (Cinemaware release only)

Provided that you register first, the Amiga version of the game and others can be downloaded from the Cinemaware website.

TRIVIA: Almost all the coders and production staff that worked at Cinemaware during development appeared on team rosters in the game and assumed cheesy nicknames. For example, the Cinemaware basketball team includes- 

Players: 'Gunner' Garner, 'Cookie' Cutter, 'Downtown' Todd, 'Spud' Simmons, 'Air' Albright, 'Magic' Truelove, 'Brick' Riordin, 'Jumpin-Jack' Platt, 'Hack' Hilbers, 'Doctor' Duggan, 'Sky' Cook, 'Ohmi' Godfrey

Coach: 'Jammin' Jacob

http://hol.abime.net/1540
